Technical overview
How I set up deployment and operations
DevOps for web products should make releases predictable. I containerize apps with Docker, wire GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, and script deploys with a clear rollback path so a bad build does not become an outage.
Reverse proxies, SSL automation, log aggregation and uptime checks are baseline. Database backups only matter if restore drills work, so I schedule both. Secrets stay in environment variables or a vault, never in Git.
I start with practical tooling: scripted deploys on a VPS or managed host before introducing Kubernetes when traffic does not justify the ops cost. Infrastructure as code appears where repeatable environments pay off. Runbooks and monitoring close the loop for the team that inherits the setup.
Common DevOps tasks I help with
- How to write a Dockerfile that matches production closely
- How to set up GitHub Actions for build, test and deploy
- How to deploy with zero downtime and a rollback button
- How to automate SSL certificates and renewals
- How to schedule database backups and verify restores
- How to keep secrets out of the repository
- How to add uptime monitoring and alert routing
- How to harden a Linux host for a web app
- How to decide when Kubernetes is worth the complexity
- How to document a runbook for on-call releases